Is it as pernicious?
Comment on The list is realistically so much longer.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 12 hours agoI mean, some of them are vague to the point of being banal. The NDAA is just the bi-annual Congressional requirement to reauthorize US military operations abroad.
Why would anyone have that marked out as a conspiracy theory on the level of MK Ultra or Operation Northwoods? No reason you’d recognize the acronym as such.
choui4@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I don’t think “pernicious” would describe the NDAA, no.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
NDAA authorizing almost a trillion dollars to the military industrial complex. Nothing to see here just spending that exceeds 9-10 countries.
Hundreds of thousands of civilians have died by US bombing in the last fifty years. I would place continuing to authorize this obtuse amount of overspending way worse than MK Ultra.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Congress authorizes it. I guess you could just put “Congress” on the list. Or maybe “The Pentagon”.
With Iran, Syria, and Yemen you could probably get to 100k in one or two years.
Nevermind our airstrikes across Latin America, the various African states, and our collaborations with Israel in Gaza.
Hell, the US can take credit for quite a few kills in Ukraine thanks to our long standing policy of playing both ends against the middle.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
The fact that amount of money being spent is absolutely obscene and NDAA is effectively the military industrial complex.
I get you don’t think it should be on the list, but an open conspiracy is still a conspiracy.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
US military hegemony isn’t a conspiracy, it’s a popular public policy